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Out of all levels of elected government, city and county officials have perhaps the greatest impact on the everyday lives of Americans. High participation and fair voting systems in elections for councilors, mayors and county commissioners are therefore critically important to a healthy democracy.
Unfortunately, local elections in the United States are often blighted by low and skewed turnout, unfair electoral systems and negative election campaigning. FairVote advocates fair representation voting and ranked choice voting for local elections to help remedy these problems.
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7. Where in you need to go for custom adapter , look for longer term and not just for one project. Eg., EDI adapters, VAN AS2 etc.
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The Challenging Vision of a Veteran. Mark Eyskens's Word on Assumption Day 2017
In my view, we who think and take responsibility, ought to be grateful always when a fruit is coming forth from the most ripened minds of great men and women in the bossom of our community. Challenges of the Day are dire and varied, and Teachers of Perceptive Power are few. The Saint Mary Assumption Statement of Mark Eyskens is sucht a text, to be found on his Facebook page (see the complete text underneath). It is wide ranging, and obviously blossoming on the soil of a rich life. like Mark Eyskens has lived it. Amongst other duties and callings answered, he has been a professor in economics, a foremost political leader in the hierarchy of our country and university town, and an experienced traveller fitted with a keen sence for observation and reflection. The visionary piece speaks of the new lines of thinking that challenge and enrich our Western World View. It emphasises the need for bridges to be build. And it puts forward lines of conduct in the global economy and on the only planet that we have in a concise way. Alas, in its last part the article looks to me rather as a testimony of a all too Technocratic Mind. The Text is tell tale of a personal weak grasp of what it truly is, to be a Soulful Human Being. I want to comment shortly on that Positivism démarche, also since the man involved has a high visibility added to an obvious Responsibility to Future Generations, as I have, and as we all have in a Democracy and a climate of Free Speech.
First of all, in the political science paragraph, I cannot agree with the statement that "The Euro-zone, in order to cope with distortions of competition among member states, has to impose severe measures of austerity implying the reduction of public spending, of wages, of all kinds of allowances."
In Belgium today, it is a well documented fact that sheer and bleak Poverty continues to exist. Furthermore, so called 'Child Poverty' is high and on the rise. "Child Poverty", which is in fact a sexy term to describe "Single Mother Poverty". This is a state of life coming daily with all too heavy burdens on the adult and the children involved, expressly the oldest in the nest, in terms of responsibility and worries that are never matched by enough concepts, solutions and even words to deal with them. Is a Hell that I stayed and laboured in for about 15 years personally in a former life. We dare to hope Eyskens has inserted this paragraph not for a Belgian audience, but for a country struggling with specific political cultures, traditions and structures like Greece.
Unpleasant to me is furthermore the fact that the author in his paragraphy on future technology seems to forget the hopes that are fertilizing his first three paragaphs, about the good influence of the thinking of the Far East on the present world and other enlivening signs of the times, like the Yin and Yang awareness that tend to have embettering influences on the Platonic model of thinking & other wide scopes that embrace culture and identity differences, and that deny the value of narrow nationalism. That thinking model of dualisms shows increasingly its problematic sides, even if it brought us science based Wealth that is unprecedented in the entire history of Mankind.
You can read for yourself the elogy Eyskens writes about nano- and bio-engineering and the like. I am a bit apalled by these words, to be honest.
What our Community of Human Beings needs, in my view, to enable itself to embark on a sunny path of Future, is not the nowadays all too common spirit of devotion, often verging to bland bigotry towards Technology and hard Science. That Spirit is a dying Spirit. A mean and destructive Spirit it is. A Spirit for all to see in the open since the recent scandals caused by the governing attitudes in German automobile industry. Recent media matter on food have shown a similar approach to commerce and customer, and to animals involved. A Spirit of using customers and abusing human health. A spirit that is in evil disregard of Ethical Preocupations. A spirit, in many cases, infected with a lively sence for fraud and greed.
On the contrary, the World Community will benefit of a different World View (Weltanschaung) and view on Man. A World View like it is expressed, when we may limit ourselves to the discipline of Theology, in new and alive scientific branches like Indigenous Theology and Feminine Theology. The Spirit that reigns in the Villages of the Tsimane is an exemplary one that we hope will inspire modern nations and leading entities as well as individuals (see the articles in the world press of end of March and my blog on the topic, http://community.dewereldmorgen.be/blog/stefaanhublou/2017/03/20/kan-de-schat-van-de-tsimane-de-wereld-nog-redden-update).
Pope Francis seems to have understood this Path to a good future, in directing the editing of his splendid encyclical letter 'Laudato si' on ecological themes and poverty management, & more in particular when referring last Spring to the Spirit of traditional small village communities fathered by their priest. A 'holy man' (or woman, I presume) who knows his people, shares their plights and who feasts with them. Like it becomes visible in the iconic profile of "Don Camillo" in the tv stories. The embracing without fear or precaution by mister Eyskens of Engineer Science, looks to me as a professor Mortimer kind of attitude, the famous, nice but technocratic graphic novel hero, that speaks of loyalty to enthousiasms belonging to the long-buried past that drove the world to World War I and II and the cold war. Even if some young minds are devotional to this alien, soulless image of man in surprising ways too. See my criticism on Yuval Noah Harari's recent essay here: http://community.dewereldmorgen.be/blog/stefaanhublou/2017/08/04/wat-te-denken-van-de-homo-deus-het-cyborg-toekomstbeeld-van-prof-y-noah-harari.
But, dear reader, please continue to read hereafter, professor Eyskens has to say lots of interesting things in this mid summer period, about a civilisation that is in its mid summer of ripeness, power and glory. And that is struggling at the same time with the challenges, tensions & problems that come with such a State.
The First Saturday after Assumption
Eyskens' text follows here in its enterity
It has been published on Facebook on August 15 at 6 o'clock
Shifting Economy
Homo sapiens is now evolving into post economy. The New Economy must manage scarcity and affluence, a dual problem that is not integrated into the main classical economic theories. Digitalization of production and consumption is dramatically reducing production cost in some fields, even reaching the zero marginal cost level. At that point market price will lose its efficiency and market economy its purpose as a mechanism of satisfying human needs, taking into account fundamental scarcity. There will be an important shock between opulence, described by the economist John Kenneth Galbraith in The Affluent Society, and scarcity on planet Earth. The only planet we have. There is no planet B.
The West grew strongly particularly at the beginning of industrialization, thanks to dualism, an old paradigm stemming from Plato. This logic of contradictions, was very useful because it forced the Westerners to make choices between "either/or", between alternatives, between right or wrong in order to progress and to act. The steam engine is a good example, invented three centuries earlier in China as a piece of entertainment, but installed only in the eighteenth century at the heart of the industry in Europe by Westerners. Platonic dualism is at the core of creativity but was and still is at the origin of many conflicts and even wars which ranked the 20th century as the bloodiest of the human history.
Asian wisdom however teaches us another different basic paradigm: the Yin and Yang principle: the complementarity of dual oppositions which merge into a synthesis. In Chinese writing moreover, there is a single ideogram for the words « crisis » and « opportunity ».
This concept matches perfectly with the discovery of quantum physics that light is both a wave and a beam of particles, the photons. Niels Bohr, one of the founding fathers of quantum physics, summarized this insight by the Latin phrase "Contraria complementa sunt", replacing the old "either/or" logic by the revolutionary "and/and" principle, that frees the way to cooperative solutions.
This awareness is progressively rising in Western thinking and will have far reaching consequences. It will lead us to a new holistic approach, exploring the hidden energies of diversity, divergence, oppositions and promoting synthesis and all kinds of creative compromises, in a world of interdependence, where national governments are too small for the big problems and too big for the small ones. Economic praxis has already adopted what is coined as: « Coopetition », when competition and cooperation are no longer exclusive along Darwinian principles but complementary, even inclusive according to quantum mechanical rules.
The rising of this inclusive, global approach is a challenge for political and economic leaders facing local populism emerging from fears and misunderstanding of what is going on in the global world of today and the world village of tomorrow. The nationalistic definition of "people" has become obsolete. The "people" has become a "population" with multicultural features in most countries. Nationalism and populism are perfectly understandable but they have become counterproductive because no longer future oriented. Protectionism is the economic and cultural translation of nationalism. To a certain extent protectionism existed already before economics and politics, even before human beings: the first membranes protecting living cells, stressed in our bodies. This selfish vitalism is still attractive but suicidal in a changed world as soon as ego nationalists propose to build walls instead of bridges.
In times of growing complexity democracy is caught between web and spider. Some citizens are saying "We have a vote, but we do not have a voice". This is a serious warning addressed to politicians. Societal problems are extremely complex and the decision making process is most opaque. Governments, authorities "they" decide, they rule, they legislate, they impose…
There is a far reaching "they-ification" of politics, which makes governing impersonal, abstract and looking like a non figurative painting. We need to reinvent democracy by introducing elements of participative decision making, by informing and explaining and replacing demagogues by pedagogues.
Most important is to modify the democratic voting systems. One model could be the promoting of «point voting», an electoral system by which each voter would get a plural number of votes, for instance ten votes, which he could freely cast and spread over different parties and candidates according to the intensity of his preferences. This would lead to a fine tuning of the voters choices. Also at the micro-economic level of enterprises and companies democratic cooperation between all stakeholders, transcending their exclusive interests, is at stake in the post economic era. Still more Herculean is the task of organizing steadily ways and means of international, possibly worldwide economic and political governance.
On a much larger scale the European institutions also suffer of several functional problems and have to cope with great challenges. A European Fiscal Community should be created according to the principle "no representation without taxation." Today the EU Parliament has no taxation power, so it is difficult to implement new strategies and new legislation. We need also to simplify and clarify the taxation systems. Budgetary expenses with respect to defence, security, energy, development policy, integration of immigrants, research, digital communication… should be Europeanized. A strong European public budget is needed. The EU Institutions budget equals 1% versus 27% in the USA for the federal expenses.
The Euro-zone, in order to cope with distortions of competition among member states, has to impose severe measures of austerity implying the reduction of public spending, of wages, of all kinds of allowances. The management of exchange rates by individual countries is no longer possible inside a monetary zone. Austerity measures being considered as an "internal devaluation" make the European Union unpopular and may lead to economic deflation. Only an efficient budgetary policy conducted by the EU could stabilize the Euro-zone.
Europe should unite in front of the ongoing scientific and technological revolutions.
History of mankind has indeed been steered by discoveries and scientific innovations, starting with the discovery of fire, 300.000 year ago.
Today scientific inventions are overwhelming in all domains. The acronym B.I.N.C. is useful in summarizing the ongoing scientific revolutions:
• Biogenetics, fabulous progress of medicine, average life span of 100, 150, 200 years??
• Information technology (computer apps, AI, virtual reality and physical robots, 3-D printing). Emergence of the "robo sapiens"
• Nanotechnology. Tomorrow, we will be able to speak to every citizen on earth in our own language, and understand all the worlds' languages thanks to nano computers (wireless or implanted in our own body)
• Cognitive science, human brain research and manipulation.
The socio-economic consequences of the tsunami of scientific and technological innovations will be overwhelming and dramatic for the world community and the members of mankind.
Digitalization and robotization will considerably reduce working time, wage earners will be replaced by independent employees, the existence of world markets will go hand in hand with home work, multinationals will compete but also cooperate in lot of domains, intellectual property will no longer be protected, interconnectivity will eliminate all kind of intermediaries on the markets, e-commerce will take over from shopping. AIRBNB, Uberisation, circular economy, pooling, personal manufacturing, on line open courses, worldwide universities will spread, cash payments will disappear. The development of solar and nuclear fusion energy will completely change the worldwide economic and political power balance. Wealth will be transformed in welfare and the pursuit of happiness will become a societal goal. A post-economic era will emerge.
Nevertheless a lot of shadows of progress will have to be dealt with: demography, aging, climate, food scarcity, AMR (antimicrobial resistance), weapons of mass destruction, the difficulty to transform multiculturality in interculturality …
It goes without saying that the ongoing tsunami of scientific and technological innovations will revolutionize the world community for better and for worse. As a consequence the ultimate question will be and is already the question of ethics. How to transform all these changes into human progress? How should we manage ethics in politics, in economy, in business? And what's the "right ethic"? Who is deciding on those values? Which are the rules applicable for everyone? Do we stick and apply to the lowest common denominator?
Buddha, Jesus Christ, Kant and other moral leaders said: "Do not do to others what you do not want done to yourself". But is this rule sufficient to improve human life on earth?
The guideline of SHIFTING ECONOMY is the quest of purpose in economy, the quest of ethics in business – with tools that can be used on the field. It is also an invitation to all decision-makers to imagine and implement new dreams to connect human beings, and transform the grief of the planetary village into human happiness.
(Mark Eyskens)


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McKay Firm Partners Named 2021 Best Lawyers in America
Julius W. McKay, II
COLUMBIA, SC - The McKay Firm is pleased to announce that two of the firms' Partners, Julius W. "Jay" McKay, II, and Daniel R. Settana, Jr., have been selected for inclusion in the 2021 edition of The Best Lawyers in America.
Mr. McKay was selected for inclusion in the 2021 Best Lawyers® list in the areas of Medical Malpractice Law and Insurance Law. He also practices in Products Liability, Commercial Litigation, Government Defense, Appellate Law and Professional Licensure Disputes. His grandfather, Douglas McKay, Sr., started The McKay Firm in 1908.
Daniel R. Settana Jr.
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require 'test/unit'
require 'rgeo'

require ::File.expand_path('../common/point_tests.rb', ::File.dirname(__FILE__))

module RGeo
  module Tests  # :nodoc:
    module GeosFFI  # :nodoc:

      class TestPoint < ::Test::Unit::TestCase  # :nodoc:

        def setup
          @factory = ::RGeo::Geos.factory(:native_interface => :ffi, :buffer_resolution => 8)
          @zfactory = ::RGeo::Geos.factory(:has_z_coordinate => true, :native_interface => :ffi)
          @mfactory = ::RGeo::Geos.factory(:has_m_coordinate => true, :native_interface => :ffi)
          @zmfactory = ::RGeo::Geos.factory(:has_z_coordinate => true, :has_m_coordinate => true,
            :native_interface => :ffi)
        end

        include ::RGeo::Tests::Common::PointTests

        # TEMP until ffi-geos 0.0.5 is released
        undef_method :test_buffer
        # END_TEMP

        def test_is_geos
          point_ = @factory.point(21, -22)
          assert_equal(true, ::RGeo::Geos.is_geos?(point_))
          assert_equal(false, ::RGeo::Geos.is_capi_geos?(point_))
          assert_equal(true, ::RGeo::Geos.is_ffi_geos?(point_))
          point2_ = @zmfactory.point(21, -22, 0, 0)
          assert_equal(true, ::RGeo::Geos.is_geos?(point2_))
          assert_equal(false, ::RGeo::Geos.is_capi_geos?(point2_))
          assert_equal(true, ::RGeo::Geos.is_ffi_geos?(point2_))
        end

        def test_has_no_projection
          point_ = @factory.point(21, -22)
          assert(!point_.respond_to?(:projection))
        end

        def test_srid
          point_ = @factory.point(11, 12)
          assert_equal(0, point_.srid)
        end

        def test_distance
          point1_ = @factory.point(11, 12)
          point2_ = @factory.point(11, 12)
          point3_ = @factory.point(13, 12)
          assert_equal(0, point1_.distance(point2_))
          assert_equal(2, point1_.distance(point3_))
        end

        if defined?(::Encoding)

          def test_as_text_encoding
            factory_ = ::RGeo::Geos.factory(:native_interface => :ffi, :wkt_generator => :geos)
            point_ = factory_.point(11, 12)
            assert_equal(::Encoding::US_ASCII, point_.as_text.encoding)
          end

          def test_as_binary_encoding
            factory_ = ::RGeo::Geos.factory(:native_interface => :ffi, :wkb_generator => :geos)
            point_ = factory_.point(11, 12)
            assert_equal(::Encoding::ASCII_8BIT, point_.as_binary.encoding)
          end

        end

      end

    end
  end
end if ::RGeo::Geos.ffi_supported?

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Catoosa County Coroner Vanita Hullander has been involved with Teen Maze, an annual large-scale network of experiences to help teens see the potential consequences of making poor choices, for seven years. Last month, 1,500 sophomores from four counties attended the event at The Colonnade in Ringgold.
One station in the maze invited students to post on a special wall things they would change about their lives if they could. "So many notes," says Hullander, "said 'I wish my parents wouldn't drink,' 'I wish there weren't drugs in my house,' 'I wish my parents would pay more attention to me,' and 'I'm thinking about suicide. Please help me.'"
"We're facing a crisis today like we've never seen before," says Hullander, who has also worked as an EMT and in emergency rooms. "And children are suffering the most."
"The reason God brings us into the world as babies is because there's someone bigger than us who should be guiding, teaching and correcting us." That someone is a parent says Hullander, and she believes that a large part of the crisis is parents who are steeped in substance abuse, addicted to their phones and devices or emotionally absent from parenting.
But the problem is more complex than that, Hullander says. While parents are the ultimate people in their children's lives and the ones from whom children should be able learn how to live, there's plenty of blame to go around.
"We promote destruction in our country now," says Hullander. "The national media is the greatest threat to our ability to heal. They are dismantling our country by sensationalizing everything and promoting confusion and despair. It's not profitable to the media for people to heal."
Hullander says a classic warfare strategy is to divide people, then use the confusion to conquer. "The confusion maker has all the power."
"No one knows what their roles are anymore. They don't know what their responsibilities are. Parents are afraid to correct their children. Legislatures are afraid to limit violent media and dangerous drugs. Everyone is walking on eggshells, afraid they'll do or say the wrong thing, so they do nothing. The people with the most to gain — financially or in the way of status or power — are the ones most likely to try to keep others confused and helpless."
"We're three generations into this. For too many kids today, substance abuse, violence, broken relationships and irresponsibility are the new normal. It's all they know. It's what they see at home, online, on TV. They think it's supposed to be this way."
"Children are starved for attention and guidance from their parents," says Hullander, "for a strong family life and adults who are part of the solution, not the problem."
"When I worked in an emergency room," says Hullander, "fourteen and fifteen year old girls would come in miscarrying and heartbroken, because they desperately wanted that baby because they thought it would bring them the love they didn't get from their parents."
On substance abuse, Hullander says, "Many parents introduce their kids to drugs and alcohol. In even more cases, parents and grandparents simply make drugs available to kids by keeping them where they're easily accessible. Parents today say, 'Go get me my Valium.' The kids know where it is, they get it and take some themselves. Their parents think nothing of taking drugs openly, so why should the kids?"
Hullander is also concerned about prescribing drugs for children. "We need to stop labeling and medicating our children for acting like children. Kids have no choice. Adults can't be bothered helping them work through the normal challenges of growing up, so they drug them and the kids come to think that it's normal to take drugs to solve problems."
On lawmakers: "Legislators like to talk about how concerned they are but they don't want to stick their necks on the chopping block for the good of society. They somehow think they've done their job by saying there's a problem. Too many of them bow to the drug industry or other special interests. Some just don't have a backbone. Some are blind to the dangers. Some think the answer is to lock more people up."
"When you have a whole society that's dysfunctional," says Hullander, "incarceration is not the solution. Some people need to be in jail, but most need help.
"They need laws that protect them and programs that help them recover and learn how to be functional, healthy members of society again."
Hullander, who teaches substance abuse classes, would like to see prescription drug laws in Georgia like the ones in Tennessee that have rescheduled numerous drugs to more severe categories and strictly limit what drugs can be prescribed for and the duration of prescriptions. "We need to stop the addiction before it starts. Substance abuse destroys at so many levels — it sets the scene for ruined marriages, families and childhoods far into the future. It leaves people homeless, sick and hopeless. It hurts our economy and puts our freedom at risk. We can't run from this problem anymore."
"We need to face the truth about why people become addicts," Hullander says. "No one wakes up one day and says "I want to be an addict.' Maybe they were abused or neglected as children or bullied at school. Maybe they've had no support system and see no purpose to their life. Addiction can become a purpose — it's always there, always calling to you. You have a family in other addicts and your dealer. It's a society unto itself. We must face the human need to belong, to have a purpose, and find ways to help those who have fallen into the destructive society of substance abuse. Locking people up will not solve the problem."
Is there really a solution to all the dysfunction, both substance-induced and otherwise? Hullander admits it's a long road that will involve many people working together — schools, churches, social service agencies, courts, government and — a long shot — the media. But she returns again and again to what she considers most important: parents as examples, nurturers and authorities in their children's lives.
"I'm not an expert on parenting," Hullander says, "but I do know what we're doing in this country is not working. I know that children desperately need their parents to step up to the plate and take responsibility and set limits and act like adults. And that's something that can start right now."
"We need a lot of things — better laws, good rehabilitation, parenting classes, support systems. But there are thousands of children right here in our area who need their parents today. Parents may need help. That's okay — they should ask for it. There are plenty of us out here who are there for them. But children can't be put on hold while we try to get all this right and while we battle the forces that don't care if it's right. Kids need their parents today."
"We need to become a nation of people who fix problems and help everyone learn to make better choices," says Hullander. "We have to take responsibility — all of us who can need to help those who are struggling — first, by not contributing to their problems and second, by offering solutions and healing."
Dr. K. Daniel Phillips (sitting) and Dr. Paul Brock inspect an image at Floyd Medical Center.
Drs. Paul Brock, K. Daniel Phillips and Steven Hom are experts in different branches of medicine, but when it came to the creation of The Breast Center at Floyd a decade ago, all three agreed something transformational had to be done to better diagnose and treat patients in northwest Georgia.
"The delay of treatment for the women in our community was prevalent," said Dr. Brock, a general surgeon with Harbin Clinic. "The time between mammograms, diagnostics and treatment was as much as one or two months. That was unacceptable."
Aimee Griffin, director of The Breast Center at Floyd, said they were seeing women with advanced stages of breast cancer whose survival rates would have been much higher had they been diagnosed earlier.
Creating an environment where women could get an accurate diagnosis within 24 hours of having a mammogram seemed daunting at the time. Radiologists, pathologists and surgeons all had to be on the same page before The Breast Center at Floyd's Know in 24 promise could become a reality.
"It was significant in that it required the different specialties to change the way they did things," said Dr. Phillips, a radiologist with Rome Radiology Group. "It reprioritized the importance of breast care and we had to trust one another. We were looking as a collaborative whole at what was in the best interest of the patient."
He said the success of their efforts is visible and he credited Floyd Medical Center for its role.
"Women know they can come to The Breast Center at Floyd and the will receive the highest level of care possible in a patient-centric way. None of this would have been possible if it wasn't for the administrative support of Floyd Medical Center."
Dr. Hom, president of SouthEastern Pathology, P.C., agreed that working together resulted in what was best for the patient, a 24-hour turn-around time.
"I can fully appreciate the anxiety produced in having to wait for a result, and reporting results this quickly is very gratifying to us," Dr. Hom added. "The major concern when we began this program was not sacrificing quality for a quick diagnosis and with the help of the histology departments at Floyd Medical Center and South-Eastern Pathology we can have the slides quickly including special stains."
Griffin called the collaboration between Rome Radiology Group, Harbin Clinic and SouthEastern Pathology outstanding.
"We have created a state-of-the art program where women in northwest Georgia have access to the most efficient, compassionate and highest quality care available," she said.
The Mobile Mammography Coach has also played a huge role in reaching more women earlier.
"It was critically important to us to realize there were certain women not getting screened because they were the primary breadwinners in their families and they worked in businesses and industries that did not allowed them to take time off," Dr. Brock said. "That mammogram machine now goes to industries throughout seven counties and we do mammograms for women who would probably not otherwise make it to a routine screening."
• Susan Grout is a breast cancer survivor and her husband John is a business professor.
Susan Grout's stress level would have been lower in 2001 if she didn't have to wait. She was diagnosed with breast cancer that year. It took three weeks and a second mammogram before she finally met with a surgeon to find out what would happen next.
The following summer a lump was found in her other breast and she had to wait a week to find out it wasn't cancer.
"That week," she said, "was longer than the three weeks because I knew what would happen if it was cancer."
Seventeen years later, she can still recall the anxiety of not knowing. The staff at The Breast Center at Floyd pledges to make sure no one has to experience that feeling of living in limbo ever again. With its "Know in 24" promise, the center is celebrating its 10-year anniversary of delivering a quick and compassionate response to patients who get a mammogram.
"I think from the minute you walk in the door it is a welcoming place. Those ladies at the desk are very friendly and helpful," Grout said.
Susan Grout's husband, John Grout, is impressed with the Know in 24 promise and understands how difficult it is to make process changes work. He is a business professor at Berry College and is an expert in production and operations management. Grout also advises the quality committee of Floyd Medical Center's board.
The willingness to absorb necessary labor costs and create work schedules that get the job done requires a commitment.
Catoosa CFO Carl Henson discusses a new Trans-Aid agreement and liability insurance premiums during the Sept. 4 commission meeting.
Catoosa County officials recently reached a new Trans-Aid contract agreement so that it can continue to offer rides to local senior citizens, as well as two other annual contracts.
During the Sept. 4 Board of Commissioner's meeting, Chief Financial Officer Carl Henson explained the contract, and two other annual ones that the board unanimously approved.
"The Transit Alliance contracts with the Department of Human Services to provide transportation for senior citizens to the county senior center," Henson said. "The estimated amount of trips exceeds 9,000 trips. The estimated value of the contract at $6 per passenger per trip is approximately $56,000."
In addition to the Trans-Aid contract, Henson also presented to board with an annual audit engagement agreement between the county and Johnson, Hickey, and Murchison, P.C.
"The amount of the contract is not to exceed $53,500, which is the same as last year," Henson said.
Thirdly, the board signed off on paying a new premium for its liability and property equipment insurance with Liberty Mutual.
"The current proposed renewal premium is $39,6505, which is up $7,644 over prior year," Henson said.
Henson said that although this year's premium is higher than what was paid last year, the increase comes after huge savings were had when the county began getting its coverage from Liberty Mutual.
"Up until last year, they had not been able to provide coverage to local governments in Georgia, but they seem to be very aggressive in this market," Henson said. "Last year, we had a reduction of $140,000 in the insurance renewal, and it's up 7,000 over last year's renewal."
Henson presented the details of the insurance to the board, which includes increased property values.
"In this proposal, they have increased the insurable values of property $15 million, and the value of personal property by $6 million, so we've had $21 million increase in estimated property values," Henson said. "This is their second year, so they spent this last year going around to all the buildings and reappraising with all the property. We've had a good experience with them this last year, they're real prompt on settling claims."
Why is today's edition pink?
Today's Catoosa County News has gone pink to recognize October as Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
The pink paper honors those who have been touched by breast cancer. The colored newspaper also serves as a reminder from The Breast Center at Floyd, which is celebrating 10 years of educating and empowering cancer patients.
Early detection is crucial to successfully treating those with breast cancer.
Since 2001 Floyd Medical Center has focused on breast health awareness month in October, and the Catoosa County News is helping to spread this message of hope.


We are please to announce our 7th Annual "Golfing 4 Kids" Golf Tournament Fundraiser on Thursday, August 15, 2019 at Norman K. Probstein Golf Course at Forest Park! You will enjoy 18 holes along with action- packed games, free drinks and snacks, lunch and dinner is provided and much more!
Thank you for helping us celebrate our 50th anniversary and lighting the way for children in our community!
Click here to see what happened at the Gala with photos and more!
Thank you for helping us light the way at our Lighting the Way At the Races gala event on April 19, 2018. Your contribution will impact more than 1000 children.
See what happened at our Kentucky Derby gala.
Thank you for your support of our 6th Annual Golf Tournament Fundraiser on Thursday, July 12, 2018. Because of your support, the funds raised from this event will help children continue to receive the best care possible and given every opportunity to succeed.
Click here to see the great time that our golfers had on the greens.
Thank you to all our supporters, volunteers, community members and local vendors for this inspiring evening of FUN on February 3, 2017. Thanks to your support of our event, United 4 Children raised $3,200.
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Workplace (or 'bedside') testing is usually done with the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE). To qualify, it means collaborating in our psychological health or addiction recovery program so that the correct therapy may be delivered whilst you reside in your personal place.
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In the general European euphoria over the election of Barack Obama, there is the beginning of self-reflection about Europe's own troubles with racial integration. Many are asking if there could be a French, British, German or Italian Obama, and everyone knows the answer is no, not anytime soon.
It is risky to make racial comparisons between America and Europe, given all the historical and cultural differences. But race had long been one reason that Europeans, harking back to the days when famous American blacks like Josephine Baker and James Baldwin found solace in France, looked down on the United States, even as Europe developed postcolonial racial problems of its own.
"They always said, 'You think race relations are bad here in France, check out the U.S.,' " said Mohamed Hamidi, former editor of the Bondy Blog, founded after the 2005 riots in the heavily immigrant suburbs of Paris.
"But that argument can no longer stand," he said.
For many immigrants to Europe, Mr. Obama's victory is "a small revolution" toward better overall treatment of minorities, said Nadia Azieze, 31, an Algerian-born nurse who grew up here. "It will never be the same," she said, over a meal of rice and lamb in the racially mixed Paris neighborhood of Barbès-Rochechouart.
But the sisters are less optimistic about the realities of France, where minorities have a limited political role, with only one black deputy elected to the National Assembly from mainland France.
The 2007-2008 NFL season witnessed the march of one of the greatest teams in professional football history fall 35 seconds short of perfection. Despite its loss in Superbowl XLII, the New England Patriots demonstrated tremendous success in fielding a team each week with single unity of purpose — to win.
Each team member had equal responsibility to achieve this goal, knowing the rest of the team relied upon him to execute his assignment with maximum intensity and effort.
Imagine, however, if some team members, at the outset of the season, placed limitations on what they were willing to do on the field? What, for example, would have been the result had a defender informed the coach he would only defend against the pass for 20 yards out but not beyond that? Or, worse, if a fully capable player, fearing injury, opted to sit on the bench the entire season, unwilling to share the risks, leaving his fellow teammates to take hits for him.
No coach would ever field such a team, knowing that doing so would spell disaster.
Ironically, on a much more important field — a battlefield in the war on terror — this is exactly what is happening.
In 2003, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai asked NATO to help stabilize his country and provide security against the threat of the Taliban insurgency. Under a UN mandate, NATO took action, becoming the first ground mission in the six decade history of the alliance. French and German forces were sent to the north of Afghanistan; Italian and Spanish forces west; and US, British, Dutch and Canadian troops south — where most of the fighting takes place.
NATO's mission in Afghanistan was an enormous evolution for the alliance. It represented the first time the Alliance was taking action against a threat outside the European theater.
This was an important step because the member nations, recognizing that the threats to their mutual security posed by terrorism and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction were global, necessitating more than purely local action.
The future of NATO as a credible force, with single-minded unity of purpose, turned on its performance in Afghanistan.
Despite the strategic importance of NATO's success in Afghanistan, it quickly became apparent not all team members came to win. Promised manpower levels were not provided. Some team members placed operational restrictions on their forces. They were not allowed to operate at night.
Others were barred from operating in those areas where the threat was greatest and, thus, help needed the most. Some even put limitations on the distance forces could patrol outside their bases. It was clear not all team members had the same unity of purpose in mind, content to leave other team members to take the hits for them.
Instead of fielding the 18-1 Patriots, NATO fielded the 1-15 Miami Dolphins. President Bush and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates have been pressing our NATO allies to do more in this very important fight.
Trying to at least get those nations imposing limitations on the use of their forces, Gates has pointed out, "Brothers in arms achieve victory only when all march in step toward the sound of the guns." He repeatedly encouraged NATO team members to make their restrictions as benign as possible.
But their continued failure to do so is making the military commander's mission in Afghanistan a nightmare as leaders need constantly consider what assets can be used at what times and in what locations. Missions are impeded as commanders fail to have unlimited access to all resources in-country. This is no way to fight a war you intend to win.
highest casualty rate of any country, to threaten a withdrawal of its forces next year if other member states fail to contribute more to combat operations.
Afghanistan is NATO's Superbowl. But while NATO leaders pledge to stay the course there, they are doing little to demonstrate a winning commitment. It was recently revealed that Prince Henry — third in line to the British throne — secretly spent more than two months as a combat soldier in Afghanistan before his presence was revealed by the media.
The bad news is the media placed greater value on reporting this story than on limiting risk to human life; the good news is Henry's front line deployment demonstrated the Brits' unity of purpose and commitment to the principle all team members are equal and should share equal risks. If only we could get all our NATO team members to accept this standard.
Short of that, NATO's quest to win its Superbowl may well go the way of that of the New England Patriots.
James Zumwalt is a retired Marine who served in the Vietnam and Gulf wars. He has written opinion pieces on foreign policy, defense and security issues for dozens of newspapers. He is president of his own security consulting company.
HONG KONG, Feb. 8 (UPI) — NATO is closely watching China's military expansion, with an attitude of rising concern and wariness. Led by the United States, NATO members are starting to view China as a possible emerging common adversary.In June 2007 the Stockholm Peace Research Institute of Sweden claimed in a published report that China's military spending had overtaken that of Russia by a very large margin. U.S. defense officials have expressed concern over the lack of transparency in China's military budget and the purpose behind some of its weapons acquisitions.
In light of these concerns, chances are very slim that the European Union will lift its arms embargo on China this year; in fact, the embargo may remain in effect for a long time to come.
At the Paris Air Show and other major European exhibitions of military equipment, major arms manufacturers from Germany and France have shown little interest in the Chinese market; they are not pressuring the EU to lift the embargo on China.
French and Italian arms manufacturers learned their lessons through brief attempts at cooperation with China in the 1980s. Not only did these efforts yield little profit, but the companies found their technologies had been stolen and replicated by the Chinese.
The United States and Japan are behind a plan to strategically isolate China, which has been very successful so far. Both Tokyo and Washington believe that the scale, pace and strategic intent of China's arms expansion in recent years are far beyond its needs for a future conflict in the Taiwan Strait. They see China posing an immense challenge, over a much broader area, against the United States, Japan, NATO and even India. China's latest moves to construct an aircraft carrier and build new nuclear-powered submarines are specific examples of this challenge.
Why is NATO planning to locate ballistic missile defense bases in Poland and the Czech Republic? The United States managed to convince NATO that China's intercontinental ballistic missiles may pose a threat to NATO members' territory. These facilities would not only be directed at Russia, according to multiple military sources within NATO countries.
On several occasions, the United States has replaced China with North Korea as the potential target of missiles from Eastern European bases. But why should Europe and NATO be on guard against non-existent intercontinental ballistic missiles from North Korea? In fact, the bases are related to the fact that NATO views China as a potential threat and an unstable factor that directly influences its security.
Generally speaking, the strategic friction between China and NATO is related to the following factors: First, China's military is expanding at a pace unmatched by any other country in the world, and China's strategic arsenals, including its ICBMs and SLBMs, can easily reach the territories of all NATO member countries. China is one of the few major countries that have the capability to pose a direct military threat to NATO members, and yet China's military expansion is nontransparent and restricted by no international treaties.
Second, China's construction of an aircraft carrier and other large-tonnage surface battleships suggests that China will directly challenge the interests of NATO countries in the Pacific Ocean and in the Indian Ocean as well. This includes the interests of the United States and Canada.
Thirdly, China's rising military, political and economic prowess in central Asia and Afghanistan is also in conflict with NATO's frontline strategies in the region. Several reports published in the United States have claimed that 90 percent of the weapons used by insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan are from China. Moreover, China has close political, military and diplomatic ties with those countries that are considered "rogue nations" by the United States and NATO, for instance, Iran and Syria.
In particular, Iran's ballistic missiles are considered the most practical and direct threat to NATO territories, giving NATO an excuse to develop its own ballistic missile defense program and for the United States to deploy anti-ballistic missile systems in Eastern Europe. In fact, China has been the key source of Iran's arms over the years.
Lastly, Chinese intelligence agents are also a threat to the interests of NATO countries. NATO has the world's most cutting-edge technologies, and Chinese spies have been quite active in all NATO countries and even in Russia. A top official from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service openly acknowledged recently that the agency devoted more than half its personnel and material resources to dealing with these Chinese operatives.
How does China look at NATO's reassessment of its China policy? An internal Chinese document on the country's diplomatic relations talks about its policies on the European Union and NATO. A fundamental focus of the arguments in the document is that China should take advantage of NATO's "internal contradictions" and attempt to divide the alliance.
A large section of this document is devoted to a discussion of EU and NATO members' concerns about U.S. "unilateralism," claiming that the disappearance of a common adversary has led to the rise of internal differences. The document says that since the end of the Cold War, NATO's role as the hub of European and U.S. security has weakened, and Europe and the United States now have fewer common political objectives as a result.
The course of development in international affairs has meant that, due to their respective democratic political systems, changes of governments in the United States and within NATO member countries has also meant adjustments in their foreign policies. Nonetheless, because of their shared values, race and close cultural heritage, the United States and Europe still have some common goals, particularly in the fight against terrorism, preventing the rise of "rogue nations" in specific regions and guarding against the threats of Russia and China. The consensus of the United States and Europe on the issue of Iran's nuclear program is a best representation of such common strategic interests.
The Chinese document also claims that the European populace has generally lost confidence in the United States, and that relationships between the leaders of Germany, France and the United States have cooled. The author of the document believes that there is no close coordination between Europe and the United States on the Balkan and Afghanistan issues, nor have they formulated common policies on Russia and China.
The document concludes that China should actively strive to strengthen China-Europe economic and trade relations. China should not only continue its efforts to strengthen its strategic partnership with France, but should also reinforce its ties with Germany and Eastern European countries.
"Countries such as France and Germany do not like the United States to dictate what they should do. The United States has always tried to use NATO to interfere in affairs around the world, which is in fact to use NATO to serve the interests of the United States. Without France and Germany, Europe could have become a handy tool of the United States long ago," reads the Chinese analysis.
The document recommends that China reinforce its relations with the European Union to minimize the impact of the U.S. strategic squeeze upon China, and to win solid support from the European Union in a wide range of areas including the Taiwan issue, technology transfers and the lifting of the arms embargo. China's strategy of using Germany and France to create divisions between the United States and Europe has been a frequent topic of discussion in articles published by the Chinese media.


Submitted Minto's Turnberry Grand model is open for viewing in Lockford at TwinEagles.
Minto's Turnberry Grand furnished model residence is open and available for viewing in TwinEagles' Lockford neighborhood.
Lockford showcases seven, one- and two-story floor plans by Minto ranging from 2,642 to 3,811 square feet under air. Homes are on 60-foot home sites and priced from the low-$500s to $1 million. Lockford will include 42 residences at build-out. Each home site has TwinEagles signature golf course, water and preserve views. The Turnberry Grand is one of two furnished Minto model residences currently open in Lockford.
Minto's Turnberry Grand model encompasses 3,811 square feet under air. It features a two-story great room, three bedrooms, three full baths and two half-baths, a study, formal dining room, a lanai with an outdoor kitchen, an upstairs bonus room with a covered outdoor terrace, and a three-car garage with a tandem space that offers the possibility of including an additional air-conditioned room. Turnberry Grand pricing starts at $638,990.
Bahama inspired British Colonial décor features a blue and white color scheme with dark mahogany and dark cherry woods throughout. Light tile floors provide a striking contrast with the darker wood tones while extensive use of wainscoting and bold crown molding add to the traditional flavor.
Bold color contrasts are established in the grand foyer that is open to the second floor. Traditional wainscoting is used in a soft white tone and a wall panel treatment that reaches from the floor to the second-story ceiling. A dark console provides a touch of drama set against the light tones of the floor tile and wall paneling. Beyond the foyer, the eye is drawn through the great room to the outdoor living area and pool.
The open, airy great room has a generously scaled sectional sofa in a light-toned upholstery. Two heavily detailed accent chairs in a dark mahogany with blue upholstery offer contrast and balance. Across from this seating group, the television is wall-mounted against a backdrop of applied moldings finished in soft white tones. A British Colonial style, dark mahogany console that showcases traditional detailing sits beneath the television. The cocktail table is finished in a dark mahogany mesh. A matching end table and another with heavily turned legs and a glass inset top complete the look. The great room is open to the kitchen and dining room creating an entertainment space that extends seamlessly to the outdoor living area through pocketing sliding doors.
The gourmet kitchen is integrated with the great room through the placement of a substantial, L-shaped counter-height island with six bar stools that are finished in rattan with khaki colored linen fabric seat cushions. The kitchen cabinets are in a rich dark mahogany finish with traditional detailing, recessed panel doors, and corbels in the island counter overhang area. The perimeter cabinetry has been enhanced by multiple levels. The highest cabinets showcase glass doors with interior lights. Granite countertops are in tones of brown and gold.
The adjacent dining room features a wall of windows that look out onto the lanai. The dining table presents a British Colonial tropical look in dark mahogany with turned legs. Its generous scale seats up to 10 people. The host and hostess chairs are upholstered in a shoemaker fabric of tropical blue, cream, and green floral. The side chairs are more slender and upholstered in blue and white linen.
The study is adjacent to the foyer and features hardwood floor with a large, traditional desk in the center of the room with two oversized armchairs.
A short hallway from the great room leads to a double-door entry into a master suite decorated in a Turkish tropical oasis. The bed features an upholstered headboard flanked by two round night stands. The room's generous size allows for an oversized dresser and a sitting area with a chair and table in front of bay windows that overlook the golf course. The walls are a soft gray blue color that contrasts with the linen white window treatments. For added privacy, the master suite's large walk-in closets are outside the bedroom. A private morning kitchen features dark mahogany cabinetry with a granite countertop and a sink.
The master bathroom showcases an oval bathtub, spacious glass-enclosed shower, and his-and-her vanities in dark wood cabinetry with granite counters. The flooring material is a stylish porcelain tile which also adorns the tub deck.
Outside, the covered lanai provides ample room for a large scale dining table and six chairs in a British Colonial dark woven faux wood. The well-appointed outdoor kitchen showcases granite counters.
Upstairs, the guest bedroom has a casual tropical ambiance with eclectic and hand-painted furniture. The second-floor bonus room has been transformed into a home theater with a tropical look in lighter caramel colored woods. A large entertainment center sits across from two leather sofas. An elevated second row viewing level affords an unobstructed line of sight. The adjoining balcony provides space for additional guest seating, and showcases panoramic views of the Eagle Golf Course and conservation area beyond.
TwinEagles is being developed by the Ronto Group. The community's Preferred Builders include Minto, Divco Construction Corp., A.R.B.C. Arthur Rutenberg Homes, Stock Signature Homes, Lennar and Pulte Homes.


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I Surrender, Dear. Umbrella Arts Gallery. Curated by Frances Jakubek. July 10th - August 4th. New York, New York.
Trees II. Gallery Kayafas. Curated by Arlette Kayafas. June 8th - July 27th. Boston, Massachusetts.
Recently. Gallery Kayafas. Independent Exhibition. April 22nd - April 25th. Boston, Massachusetts.
10th Anniversary Edition of the Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers. Juried by Amber Terranova. October 3rd - October 14th, 2017. Barcelona, Spain.
The Fay Chandler EMERGING Art Exhibition and Awards. City of Boston Arts and Culture. September 1st-29th, 2017. Juried by: James Hull. The Scollay Square Gallery, Boston City Hall, Boston, MA.
Emenate. Independent Exhibition. June 3rd, 2017. The Space Studio, 438 Somerville Ave, Somerville, MA.
PDN FACES Winner's Gallery. Personal Professional Work Winner. Online Gallery. Juried by Mia Tramz, Ilona Siller, Mark Haddad, Shanti Marlar, Diana Suryakusuma, and Andrea Volbrecht.
Taking In: RAW. Lesley University College of Art and Design, Cambridge, MA. Juried by Henry Horenstein.
Inter/face. Gallery South x INDI/VISUALIST. Online Gallery. Juried by David Hilliard.
Brookwood Alumni & Community Juried Art Exhibit. Brookwood School, Manchester, MA. Juried by Katherine Stewart.
Magenta Foundation: Flash Forward Festival Undergraduate Photography Now (II). Juried by Greer Muldowney. 530 Harrison Street. Boston, MA.
Taking In: Best of LUCAD Photography 2014. Laconia Gallery. Boston, MA. Juried by Arlette Kayafas.
The Governor's Academy Alumni Juried A-rt Show. Remis Gallery, Byfield, MA. Juried by David Oxton.
Taking In: Best of Art Institute of Boston Photography. Boston Architectural Society, Boston, MA.
TakingIn: Best of the Art Institute of Boston Photography. Laconia Gallery, Boston, MA.
Fraction Media. Issue 118. Featured Artist.
Flash Forward's 2018 Top 100 Emerging Photographers. Magenta Foundation.
The Center, Review Santa Fe. Selected Photographer.
C41 Magazine. A World of Pro(s). November 30th, 2016. Featured American Photographer.
Ain't Bad Magazine. An Independent Publisher of New Photographic Art. November 3, 2015. Featured Artist.
Taking In: Raw. Best of LUCAD Photography 2015. Featured Artist.
Magenta Foundation: Flash Forward Festival Portfolio Walk. Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA.
Taking In. Best of LUCAD Photography 2014. Featured Artist.
LENSCRATCH; Undergraduate Photography Now! (Part II), by Aline Smithson, April 23, 2014. Featured Artist.
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